Watchmen, the blockbuster film adaptation of a beloved graphic novel, opens Friday. The movie’s vigilante hero, Rorschach, spends much of his screen time hidden behind an ink-splattered mask. We’re ...

In the classic Rorschach test, the psychoanalyst shows a patient a bunch of inkblots and asks what each looks like. The responses are supposed to help guide the psychoanalysis by offering insight into ...

The Rorschach test is a psychological test designed by psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach in the early 1900s. The test involves presenting a subject with images of inkblots; the person then describes what ...

One of the most well-known psychological tools is the Rorschach Inkblot Test. A viewer looks at ten inkblots, one at a time, and describes what they see. However, does the inkblot really reveal all?

Iconic blots of ink on today's Google Doodle honor Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach's 129th birthday. But over a century later, the validity of his famous psychological test—the Rorschach—depends ...

April 2 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Hermann Rorschach, the Swiss psychoanalyst who propounded the Rorschach inkblot test, still used as a means of evaluating mental conditions. The ...

IT SOUNDS like voodoo. But the Rorschach test, in which elements of someone's personality can be deduced, its proponents claim, by his description of what he sees in a series of inkblots, has been ...

Though the Rorschach is the most famous psychological test in the world, it is little understood outside of psychology circles. The test, in the news this week and under much debate, is a series of 10 ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac, November 8th, 1884, 131 years ago today ... the day Hermann Rorschach was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He grew up to become a psychiatrist -- and the ...